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Qin Shu looked at me and asked curiously: "What's wrong?"

"Thinking of something..." I frowned.

I have seen scenes in the Sixth Village of Workers and Peasants where ghosts were driven into entrances and exits of different spaces.

I have only seen such a scene once, but just by looking at the number of ghosts gathered in the Six Workers and Peasants Villages and their costumes, I can roughly estimate how long it took the underworld to accumulate so many ghosts.

It was a planned unified action.

God in the real world always wants to use monsters to clean up the future world. Kill all the living people, and maybe all the ghosts, and turn this place into a no-man's land.

Just like the future world will create Toy Town and Yangshan District, the real world is not about not fighting back when being beaten.

The tug-of-war doesn’t just happen in the real world, it also happens here.

Many cities and many people here have been destroyed.

I have realized that the world will have a long-standing problem in the future - that is, the population problem. So many people here have died that the number of newborns cannot keep up. But there was no way to prevent this death. The power of the Ghost King comes from ordinary people's fear of death. On the other hand, if there is no such fear, what is the Ghost King?

Now, is this fear still there?

Their fear of monsters should be no less than their fear of the Ghost King.

They all have the chance to become ghost kings after death.

Even if instinctively, fear of death...

This instinct is so unreasonable. They live in a world where everyone has the opportunity to become a ghost king, so why should they be afraid of being killed?

This isn't the real world. Unlike Ruan Han and Zhao Hang, they have been taught throughout their lives to revere and fear death. They need encouragement before they are willing to transform into ghosts. It's not like that crazy Nantian fan who is so crazy that he loses his reason and self. He just does what he wants without thinking carefully at all.

Is it because he is muddle along, or is it because he is not confident that he can become the Ghost King?

I remembered the dreams I had several times in the future world.

The fear of those possessing objects is real.

They are afraid of death.

The same goes for the child and the man I met before.

They are afraid of death.

"Are you going directly? In that direction... let me walk with you for a while. I just want to go see my mother." Cheng Lin said.

"Is this the rule for your mother to be the Ghost King?" I raised my hand, and the Yin energy flowed through my fingertips.

This is not Cheng Jiu's rule.

Cheng Lin nodded, "Yes. My father made it happen. His rule is trial, public trial. My mother and I both adhere to that rule. This is a mirror image. She can affect some things from a distance."

Cheng Lin explained vaguely, as if he didn't want to talk more.

I glanced at him.

He may not even realize it, but his attitude towards his father is different from the past. This change should not be caused by the father and son abandoning their past feud.

More like brainwashing.

He said he remembered what happened in the real world and couldn't lie. But was his cognition really not affected at all?

impossible.

Being affected without knowing it.

Qin Shu is like this, and he is like this. This may have happened to me too.

This suspicion stuck in my throat.

I even began to doubt whether my search for the truth was necessary. Wouldn't it be more convenient to be a tool, waiting by the entrance and exit of a different space, and directly use its ability to reverse the real world?

However, being used as a tool like that would definitely make me feel uneasy.

As if driven by a force, I want to see clearly this future world, and also take the opportunity to see clearly the real world I have lived in all my life.

Is this a future, or a completely new world?

My eyes fell on the ever-expanding city.

It is the same city as Yangshan District.

On the edge I even saw the interrupted road.

I saw buildings that had been destroyed during the day repairing themselves.

There are lights in the city. In the lighted window, a figure passed by.

Cheng Lin looked at us questioningly.

I looked up and saw the chains in the air.

The chain is not thick.

"What kind of monster did your mother become?" I was a little surprised.

"Mermaid." Cheng Lin replied.

Qin Shu took a breath in surprise and looked at Cheng Lin blankly.

"It's the kind of mermaid you imagine. In foreign countries... it's called a siren, right? But now she lives in the river and attacks with sound waves." Cheng Lin tugged at the corner of his mouth, "It can also cause hallucinations and make people crazy. ”

"It's not that big?" I had a little doubt.

Cheng Lin did not answer immediately. After a moment of pause, he said, "She...has become much bigger than at the beginning."

"Isn't there a period of weakness?" I asked again.

"Yes. But it's not very obvious, more like resting or sleeping." Cheng Lin floated forward.

Qin Shu and I followed.

There is a Luoqu River in Minqing City. From a geographical point of view, its main trunk cannot pass through Yangshan District. But there are no tributaries entering Yangshan District. The last time I entered Yangshan District, I didn’t look at the map of Yangshan District carefully, so I have no way of knowing.

Cheng Lin took us for a walk through the city.

I saw shops that were open all night and pedestrians who were still having fun outside at this time.

They didn't seem to see us and were minding their own business.

"Are these created by that ability user?" Qin Shu asked.

"Yeah. It used to be a bit dull, but recently it's become more and more real." Cheng Lin answered.

This change should be similar to the change that occurred in his mother. Their abilities are getting stronger and stronger.

I soon saw the river.

The river is not wide, but the waves are sparkling, and there is the reflection of the moon in the water.

I looked up to the sky.

The sky in this future world is always shrouded in gloom, making it difficult to see the sun, moon and stars.

The reflection in the water is completely fake.

But it is such an illusion, but it is extremely real. I can see the misty clouds flowing on the reflection of the moon.

I quickly looked away from the reflection of the moon.

Along the current, something floated down.

My heart tightened, and I subconsciously thought of the skinned female ghosts.

I soon saw clearly what was floating down. Neither the Yin Qi nor the chains can be ignored by me.

I also saw the mermaid that Cheng Lin mentioned.

The upper body is a human and the lower half is a fish, but it is not as beautiful as the legend says. That fish tail is the tail of a large fish. It has no shiny scales and looks gray, but it is very smooth.

Her short hair was like a ball of dead grass floating in the water. The exposed face was shrouded in blue and black Yin Qi, with a painful expression. That face is also a little different from ordinary people. There was something strange about the skeleton, as if something was stuffed in the mouth.

I had seen this woman in my dreams, but I wasn't impressed. What is certain now is that her appearance has changed drastically. Just looking at her like this now, I can't find any sense of familiarity at all.

Next to her, holding her up and down in the water was naturally Cheng Jiu.

Cheng Jiu was much more energetic than when I saw him. He had a gentle face and kept looking at the woman in his arms.

Cheng Jiu stared for a while before he noticed our approach. He moved his eyes away from the woman's face and slowly turned his head.

He was a little confused and looked at Cheng Lin with questioning eyes.

He doesn't recognize me at all.

Goodnight everybody.